Tag Archives: Twitter

How To Gain More Facebook Fans Naturally

There’s a phrase that’s well-liked, and it goes some thing like “if you construct it they’ll come”. Nicely, that might be additional from the truth whenever you want to gain more Facebook fans. It’s the same with any other web site. If you construct a great web site, and even when you have a great [...]

Twitter Chat: Bonfire is on Fire

There’s a new hot plugin in town, called <a href=”http://www.standingdog.com/blog/twitter-is-on-fire-bonfire-lets-you-chat-with-your-tweeps/”>Bonfire Twitter Chat</a>. <!–more–>A new plugin launched this week: Bonfire. The Twitter plugin adds a chat function to Twitter. Standing Dog points out what it can do for companies and customers.

10 Things I Hate About Twitter

Some people have a love hate relationship with Twitter. Some do not really know whether or not they love Twitter or hate Twitter. In any case, here is a Twitter poem that details the love hate Twitter relationship that they have with this social media network.

Celebrities who Tweet: Have You Ever Been Retweeted by a Celebrity?

If you have been on Twitter for a while, you know that a lot of people always try to talk to celebrities via Twitter. It is their chance to correspond with celebrities who tweet on a regular basis. If there are people who you admire, it is a great opportunity to correspond with them, you [...]

Prescription: Painkillers and Twitter

Quick. Tell me what you think the best prescription should be after you have surgery? Well according to this social media expert, the best prescription that can be prescribed after surgery is painkillers and Twitter. Go figure.

How to Upload Images to Twitter

Just recently, well, today in fact, Twitter has added a new option that allows you to upload images to Twitter from directly within the web interface. You no longer have to use some sort of other service to link out to your photo. I think this is great, and it’s about time that we can [...]

Did You Know? You Should Never Tweet about Burnt Pancakes

Did you know? You Should Not Tweet About Burnt Pancakes. When she was served a stack of burnt pancakes at a popular restaurant chain, she decided to post on Twitter about it instead of complaining to the waitress. Here are a few lessons learned from a social media experience gone awry: do not Tweet about [...]

USA No Longer Leader in Retweets

During some informal research, I took a look at the top retweets on the social media web site Twitter. I found an interesting trend, that in the past 7 days, the United States is no longer a leader when it comes to tweets that are being retweeted.

5 Internet Predictions for the Future

On the Standing Dog Blog, Josh has some interesting internet predictions for the future. He talks about his predictions for Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, the iPhone, and even Microsoft and Apple.

Why You Should Install the Official Twitter Tweet Button

Sugarrae, Rae Hoffman, has a great blog post today that is a must-read about Twitter and blog posts. If you are an active blogger like me, you need to consider replacing the Tweetmeme button with the official Twitter Button.

How to Use Twitter for Customer Service

There is now a great new tool for customer service that would probably not expect: it is called Twitter. Not only is Twittter a great social networking web site, Twitter is a great tool. And, more importantly, a time saver. I guess you now could call this new tool Twitter Customer Service. On the Standing [...]

Friendfeed and Beating Out Search Engine Land

I noticed today that my friendfeed account is beating out Search Engine Land (the actual source of the content) when it is posted and syndicated on my Twitter account. In this screen capture, notice the fact that my Friendfeed account is posting on my Twitter account faster (about a minute faster) than when Search Engine [...]